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• We prioritise building trusting relationships and being able to work alongside you and your family.
• We believe that we need to consider a family’s needs as a whole during this significant time of change and stress
• We hope to make the future better by targeting support at this critical stage in a family’s growth.
• We aspire to be a team of blended skills and expertise which works creatively, thoughtfully and innovatively.

We have nurses, occupational therapists, doctors, psychologists, nursery nurses, support workers and social workers in our team and we are all trained to support women with serious and complex mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.

Meet the team

	North Team	South Team
Administrator
Our friendly admin team are probably the first people you will come across in our service!	Beena Padmanabhan	Kate Taylor
Senior Admin
	Wendy Belding
Team Manager
	Anne Merricks
Psychiatrist
	Mukhtar Awad Nasir	Nikolett Kabacs
Psychologist
Fiona and Jo support women and their families to understand and overcome mental health difficulties as far as possible, helping them to be in the best position to bond with their baby.	Fiona Ram	Jo Peterkin
Assistant Psychologist
		Emilie Scowen
Senior Perinatal Specialist Nurse
Our nurses assess women and their families and work with them to make plans to support and help them through pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.	Juli Broder	Sarah Ennis
Debs Murthwaite	Emily McLaughlin
Laura Purran	Kellie Sargent
Occupational therapist
Sarah and Nadean work with women during the perinatal period to enable wellbeing with the use of meaningful therapeutic activity.	Sarah Morrison	Nadean Saberton
		Sam Vollenhoven
Nursery Nurse
Emily & Joy support families with everything “baby”, from play, attachment, feeding to developmental needs.	Emily Murdoch	Joy Willett
Support Worker
Clare provides practical support for women and their families to improve their functioning and well-being.	Clare Cornforth

We work closely with obstetricians, midwives and health visitors and PWS to support the families in our care.

Midwives and obstetricians

Specialist mental health obstetricians and midwives ensure women get continuity of care with clinicians who have expertise in supporting those with mental health challenges. They work closely with the perinatal mental health team to support the family as they welcome their baby.

Pre-birth planning meetings encourage joined up thinking between all the people looking after the women and take into account a detailed birth plan made with the women to best support them before, during and after birth.

The hospitals are sometimes able to offer longer stays postnatally to give added support after birth.

Our partners

Rosie Hospital, Cambridge	Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon	Peterborough City Hospital
Obstetricians
Michelle Kemp	Sangeeta Pathak	Michael Lumb
Alison Wilson
Midwives
Kaat de Backer	Nicky Pearson-Day	Lesley Edwards
Health visitors
Hilda Beauchamp

0-19 Healthy Child Programme – Health Visitors

Health visitors are qualified nurses or midwives with an additional specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification. We work as part of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme team to support you in your parenting journey, offering advice on a range of issues including infant feeding, sleep, child development and minor illnesses.

We can offer additional support in the form of ‘listening visits’ at home for parents experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and depression and other mental health concerns, and we are well-placed to refer you to community-based support groups and other resources to help you feel less isolated. If you  have concerns about how you are bonding with your baby, we can support you with reading your baby’s early cues and behaviours, and can offer video-based support (VIG) to increase your confidence.

We work closely with our colleagues in the specialist perinatal mental health team, and with your GP and midwife to co-ordinate our care in a way that you feel is best. We have a specialist health visitor for family mental health, as well as ‘champion’ health visitors in perinatal and infant mental health, who liaise with other professionals, and offer training and guidance to all our staff so that you feel confident in the advice and support you receive.

We take direct referrals from GPs, midwives and health visitors. GPs can also refer via the Primary Care Mental Health Service. 

Parents and parents-to-be should contact their GPs in the first instance.

For urgent referrals for women experiencing a mental health crisis please call the First Response Service on the NHS 111 helpline and select option 2.

We offer advice and support to other professionals. You can call our admin team on 0800 952 0060 and leave a phone number or e-mail address and a duty worker will contact you between 1-5pm Monday to Friday.

Professionals can make direct referrals – download this from the bottom of this page.

GPs can refer directly or via the Primary Care Mental Health Service. For guidance see our leaflet: Advice for GPs

For urgent referrals for women experiencing a mental health crisis, please call the First Response Service on the NHS 111 helpline and select option 2.

Download our leaflet: Advice for Professionals.